Volunteer Salesforce Developer

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Salesforce Developer to help us customise, build and implement our Salesforce for Nonprofits Cloud solution to meet our strategic vision and goals. You will be part of the Data & Analytics team but work closely with and be supported by our CTO, CPO, IT & Engineering teams. Salesforce is being used in a rudimentary way to store data for our main user types but we wish to make it our single source of truth for data and support all areas of the organisation, from program management and operations to marketing and fundraising. We have big ambitions to scale and expand so that we can impact more children and young people. We are also looking to create exciting products such as an Online Learning Platform for students and a People Portal to automate on-boarding and create a collaborative, knowledge-sharing community for our volunteers. Salesforce integrations will be critical to this. You will be joining a fast-growing organisation of over 50 volunteers from a variety of backgrounds and skill sets. There are lots of opportunities for you to grow your role, develop the organisation’s data culture or gain skills in other areas.

What are we looking for?

The ideal person will have:

Experience designing and implementing solutions to meet the requirements of the organisation by making the best use of Salesforce for Nonprofits solution End-to-end project experience, from initial requirements gathering and solution design, through development, testing and deployment of the project Experience building out Salesforce data models and schemas and knowledge of data management best practices Continuous Integrated Testing experience (Jenkins or similar) is desirable Hands-on development using configuration, APEX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, and various Salesforce.com capabilities, such as; SalesCloud, ServiceCloud, Force.com, Community etc. Experience with Salesforce integrations using APIs and web services  Appropriate documentation skills for items listed above Excellent verbal and written communication  

What difference will you make?

Our mission is to provide a nurturing environment where children and young people have access to learning opportunities, support and connections to grow and be successful in school and in life. We do this by: - Creating the best learning environment for children and young people from all backgrounds and abilities- Supporting and empowering young people on their journey into employment- Fostering a sense of community- Valuing and supporting our volunteers and helping them to realise their potential and aspirations As the charity scales, we recognise the importance of data and how this can add value. We want to be data-driven and insight-led, making better decisions that allow us to intelligently service our students, parents, volunteers and funders. By helping improve how our data is stored, managed and used, you will be supporting everything we do and essentially the students that come to learn with us.